420 Meaning: April 20 (420 or 4/20) is National Weed Day

Today is April 20, 2010. A lot of people are puzzled as to what does this day mean. They are asking what does the meaning of “4/20” or simply “420”.

Research reveals that today, April 20th is the appreciation day for Marijuana. It is known to be Marijuana Appreciation Day or National Weed Day.

So what is the origin of such celebration? Accordingly, students dating back in 1970s of San Rafael High School in Northern California used to meet at a particular location to smoke pot. Their call time back then was 4:20pm. Thus the term 420 or 4/20 was coined.

Since then, the term 420 or 4/20 was used to refer to Marijuana. During our modern times, a lot of countries ban the use of Marijuana. Thus the term 4/20 or 420 has been used as a pseudonym to refer to that weed in their communications.

According to Wikipedia, Marijuana refers to “any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug”. Although there maybe some beneficial effects in using Marijuana, the said weed causes more harmful effects in human body especially if it’s smoked in the long-term. Medical studies reveal long-term Marijuana users experience hallucinogen or psychedelic properties.

Now you know what do we celebrate this April 20. The next time someone asks you what does 420 or 4/20 mean, you know the answer it’s National Weed Day or more commonly known as Marijuana Appreciation Day.

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“Although there maybe some beneficial effects in using Marijuana, the said weed causes more harmful effects in human body especially if it’s smoked in the long-term.”

What medical studies have you been reading?
It has been documented in credited research facilities and universities worldwide, that there is no long term health to smoking cannabis, aside the health risk associated with the inhalation of smoke from any organic materials.

Sounds like you getting your recreational drugs mixed up. Those effects are commonly linked to users of LSD, aka acid. A very small number of users will sometime experience a “flashback” where the LSD’s subjective effects reappear for a short period of time for a yet unknown reason.

Please get your facts straight and do a little bit of research before you do such a biased report.

@Atomsk: Those data are from Wikipedia. Now, if you have a separate and ‘more credible’ medical study about the effects of Marijuana, then present it. I didn’t see any reason at all why most countries ban the usage of Marijuana if it did not have more harmful effects after all.

Hearst and Anslinger were then supported by Dupont chemical company and various pharmaceutical companies in the effort to outlaw cannabis. Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp removed as competition. The pharmaceutical companies could neither identify nor standardize cannabis dosages, and besides, with cannabis, folks could grow their own medicine and not have to purchase it from large companies.

Let us smoke the herbs created by the allmighty and if you don’t like the herb, please don’t tell us what’s right and what’s wrong because we are all adults here, we can decide for ourselves…
love peace and harmony!!!

They ban weed becuzz the goverment isn’t profiting from it. That’s all not because its harmful. If that’s the case and america cared so much for our health then ahy are cig companies prospering so much. Shoot! Big up to the weed up. *light blunt* get high enough to stomp on the top of the earth. Shoot thug life! lol

I smoke pot and like it a lot! Listen, marijuana is the safest intoxicant you could ever find on Earth…
If it weren’t so beneficial, then why would the government go out of their way to spread vicious lies about its
effects? They don’t want you to know that it has a million uses other than just getting high… its the perfect plant given to us as a gift from our creator… we need marijuana… I feel sorry for people that don’t smoke weed…
because when they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day…

My daughter and I are all for the Amsterdam way of doing things. It’s legal and it’s controlled. There must be some reason why it’s been around for so long and people don’t seem to be dropping from any obvious health issues. Like anything else -moderation is always the best policy. Govt needs to wake up and realise that the people are getting ready to take a stand against the ever growing communist – fat cat corrupt gov’t ways . Change is in the air. Canadians are so peaceful and polite . But at some point it just gets to be too much !!

Angel Raich sued the Feds to stop the raids, fearing a barrier to her medicine. She argued that her behavior was too trivial for federal control,
and in any event, legal under state law. She lost in district court, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Raich, finding
“nothing contrary to the public interest in allowing individuals to seek relief from a statute that is likely unconstitutional as applied to them.”
So then-attorney general John Ashcroft appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, never lacking any humor, on 4/20/04, and Lost.